The Arts: A Visual Encyclopedia
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This beautiful art encyclopedia charts the evolution of the greatest cultural achievements in painting, sculpture, and photography. The greatest art exhibition at your fingertips! Packed with fascinating facts, clear explanations, and stunning photography, this awe-inspiring art encyclopedia for kids aged 9-12 years takes you on a magical tour through time exploring every artistic style and movement in stunning detail. From Leonardo da Vinci's iconic Mona Lisa to Vincent van Gogh's spectacular The Starry Night, this art history book celebrates the lives of groundbreaking artists and their most famous art masterpieces. Get to grips with world-famous sculptures, such as the ancient Chinese Terracotta Army and Henry Moore's beautiful bronze casts. Then find out about photography, from the development of the camera to pioneering photographers such as Johannes Vermeer and Julia Margaret Cameron. Designed for both parents and children to enjoy together, this bestselling book on art history is guaranteed to encourage a love of art through the generations. Celebrate your child's creativity as they explore: - "Artist profiles" explore the lives & major works of key painters, sculptors, photographers, musicians, & dancers. - Our "Closer look" pages delve deeper into a work of art, highlighting technique, detail, and symbols. - Stunning double-page spreads feature important works of art in full color. - Striking visual artworks and photographs are all clearly explained and annotated. - Easily accessible & age-appropriate text covers key curriculum topics - Number 1 Best Seller in Children’s Books on Art History From ancient cave paintings to modern-day street art, this gorgeously illustrated art book for children traces the development of painting, sculpture, and photography through the ages. It's the ultimate introduction to the world of art for kids! A must-have volume for children curious about the arts, as well as parents, carers and educators seeking an accessible and visually-engaging encyclopedia for children all about art history. Review: Gorgeous "overview" book! - This book is packed with amazing images depicting the evolution of of art, from painting, sculpture, photography, music, and dance - from ancient to modern times. The photographs in this book are gorgeous, but none of the topics are covered in detail (this is an "overview" book). I highly recommend this book. I hope you find my review helpful! Review: Great grade school art room resource - DK never disappoints! Vibrant illustration and thoughtful dialogue. Perfect elementary art room resource.
| Best Sellers Rank | #21,414 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #4 in Children's Art History #5 in Music Encyclopedias #11 in Art Encyclopedias |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 1,632 Reviews |
P**Y
Gorgeous "overview" book!
This book is packed with amazing images depicting the evolution of of art, from painting, sculpture, photography, music, and dance - from ancient to modern times. The photographs in this book are gorgeous, but none of the topics are covered in detail (this is an "overview" book). I highly recommend this book. I hope you find my review helpful!
N**3
Great grade school art room resource
DK never disappoints! Vibrant illustration and thoughtful dialogue. Perfect elementary art room resource.
G**E
Great art book for an intelligent 12 year old and older.
Great art appreciation/history book. I bought this as a Christmas gift for a neighbor's 12 year old daughter. This book is age appropriate for an intelligent 12 year old and older. She's going to love it.
B**A
Art book review
Informational, has a ton of good history in there as well as all the famous art in the world. Engaging, but not overwhelming!
C**N
Great family book
Gorgeous book with usual clean DK layouts— love that Music and Dance are included
B**Y
High-quality but not comprehensive
I love the book. It’s beautiful. It has high-quality photos. I like how it goes through the subject matter starting with the principles of art before getting into famous work. It mostly focuses on painting, but it does have sections for sculpture, photography, music, and dance. I am however very, unhappy that they used the wave of Kanagawa as they’re back cover art, and it’s not covered once in the book. Seems like kind of a slight.
E**Y
Great for a young artist
This was a great Christmas gift for our budding artist! They love paging through it and copying artwork in their sketchbook, or just learning about the different styles of art.
E**S
The Arts
It is a beautiful Book, I purchased it for my granddaughter. She loves it. It has many photos of the Master’s art work.
M**E
A wonderful insight in Arts
Very reader friendly
A**X
Price might be steep, but worth it.
Textbooks are expensive thats no surprise. I bought this book for my art inspiration and to learn more. The colours are extremely vidid and true to the original. Very informative and I’ve learned alot already.
I**Y
Wonderful book
Very interesting illustrations and organised informations
D**J
Beautiful book but can cover more.
The book is beautiful and has a good summary of many types of art. Although it can definitely cover more types and more breadth within each art type. They did a good job for Painting, but others lack breadth such as Music, none of the modern music genres are covered. Ceramics can also be included and elaborated next to Sculpture, as it is an amazing art form. There's more to like Dance, Photography and even blacksmithing and wood-carving too.
J**O
Beautiful book
Wonderful book with lovely illustrations, also high quality
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